Project Number Date
test_Tails_ISO_21565-flatpak-safe 117 02 Nov 2026, 20:42

Feature Report

Steps Scenarios Features
Feature Passed Failed Skipped Pending Undefined Total Passed Failed Total Duration Status
Tails persistence 163 0 0 0 0 163 21 0 21 22:25.210 Passed
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Feature Tails persistence
As a Tails user I want to use a Persistent Storage
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1:42.101
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails from DVD and logged in with an administration password and the network is connected 1:28.042
And I update the APT lists using apt 7.165
And I install "python3-behave" using apt 6.218
Then the Tails Persistent Storage behave tests pass 0.674
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.587
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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26.301
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.159
When I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 12.381
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.185
And persistence is disabled 0.078
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.497
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.862
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:42.710
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 21.787
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.250
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.092
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 16.873
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.044
When I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.213
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 58.232
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.165
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.051
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.422
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.027
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28.332
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and logged in 8.211
And the system is very low on memory 4.028
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.207
When I try to create a persistent partition 3.989
Then The Persistent Storage app shows the error message "Not enough memory to create Persistent Storage" 0.106
When I close the Persistent Storage app 2.350
And I free up some memory 0.666
And I create a persistent partition with the default settings 8.735
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.037
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.775
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:54.602
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 21.144
Then Tails is running from USB drive "__internal" 0.220
And all tps features are active 7.451
And all persistent directories have safe access rights 1.661
When I disable the first tps feature 2.464
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.389
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.178
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:1.794
Then all tps features but the first one are active 7.297
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.553
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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12.968
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.699
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.066
And I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.046
Then the file I created was copied to the Persistent Storage 0.030
When I disable the first tps feature 2.463
Then persistence for "Persistent" is not active 0.045
And the Persistent directory does not exist 0.033
When I enable the first tps feature 2.432
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.069
And the file I created in the Persistent directory exists 0.081
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.673
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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13.036
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.554
Then persistence for "Persistent" is active 0.081
When I create a file in the Persistent directory 0.049
And I disable the first tps feature 2.458
And I delete the data of the Persistent Folder feature 2.843
Then the file I created does not exist on the Persistent Storage 0.048
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.665
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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42.507
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.478
And the network is plugged 0.029
And Tor is ready 11.494
And I take note of which tps features are available 6.230
When I write some files expected to persist 0.861
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.251
# XXX: The next step succeeds (and the --debug output confirms that it's actually looking for the files) but will fail in a subsequent scenario restoring the same snapshot. This exactly what we want, but why does it work? What is guestfs's behaviour when qcow2 internal snapshots are involved? (tails/tails#10330)
Then only the expected files are present on the persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 11.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.221
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:33.009
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.579
And the network is plugged 0.039
And Tor is ready 8.226
And I add a wired DHCP NetworkManager connection called "persistent-con-current" 0.136
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 6.319
Given I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 59.732
And I capture all network traffic 0.002
And the network is plugged 0.038
And Tor is ready 10.419
And I switch to the "persistent-con-current" NetworkManager connection 0.345
And the 1st network device has a spoofed MAC address configured 0.063
And no network device leaked the real MAC address 0.106
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.716
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.056
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37.862
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.003
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive without a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.291
And I enable persistence creation in Tails Greeter 1.083
And I log in to a new session expecting no warning about the Persistent Storage not being activated 11.768
Then I create a persistent partition with the default settings using the wizard that was already open 16.719
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.879
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:44.744
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.143
When I enable persistence 20.822
Then no persistent Greeter options were restored 13.710
When I set all Greeter options to non-default values 37.997
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.262
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.129
# We need to set a format explicitly, or it won't be restored later
When I set the formats to "Belgien - Deutsch" 4.393
When I log in to a new session in German (de) after having activated the Persistent Storage 21.400
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.122
When I cold reboot the computer 5.912
And the computer reboots Tails 32.485
Then the Welcome Screen's language is set to English 0.185
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to United States 0.131
Given I enable persistence 12.478
Then persistent Greeter options were restored 0.069
And the Welcome Screen's formats is set to Belgium 0.289
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 6.095
Then all Persistent Greeter options are set to non-default values 0.112
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.543
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.005
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2:0.143
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.950
# Note that if anything fails after the passphrase was changed and
# before it's changed back below, subsequent scenarios might fail
# because the Persistent Storage doesn't have the expected passphrase.
When I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage 26.096
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.141
Then I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with the changed persistence passphrase 1:0.783
And I change the passphrase of the Persistent Storage back to the original 20.171
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.813
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.006
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35.988
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.218
And I log in to a new session without activating the Persistent Storage 11.692
Then persistence is disabled 0.071
But a Tails persistence partition exists on USB drive "__internal" 5.286
And all notifications have disappeared 7.819
When I delete the persistent partition 2.633
Then there is no persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" 0.266
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.874
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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1:13.932
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition enabled and logged in 7.716
When I write some dotfile expected to persist 0.043
And I shutdown Tails and wait for the computer to power off 5.437
And I start Tails from USB drive "__internal" with network unplugged and I login with persistence enabled 1:0.572
Then the expected persistent dotfile is present in the filesystem 0.162
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.728
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.011
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53.305
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.001
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.100
And I create a symlink "/home/amnesia/Persistent" to "/etc" 0.055
When I try to enable persistence 1.152
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 12.660
When I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.176
And all notifications have disappeared 8.385
Then the Persistent Storage settings tell me that the Persistent Folder feature couldn't be activated 1.212
And all tps features are enabled 7.410
And all tps features but the first one are active 7.152
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.834
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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2:35.450
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 1:55.241
And I enable persistence 24.574
And I log in to a new session after having activated the Persistent Storage 7.430
Then a Tails persistence partition with LUKS version 2 and argon2id exists on USB drive "__internal" 0.494
And persistence is enabled 7.709
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.809
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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28.992
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a LUKS 1 persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.401
And I enable persistence but something goes wrong during the LUKS header upgrade 21.178
Then the Tails persistence partition on USB drive "__internal" still has LUKS version 1 0.412
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.682
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
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37.807
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 8.266
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" 9.765
When I enable persistence 11.975
Then the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.031
And persistence is successfully enabled 7.767
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.854
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product
26.363
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.708
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.355
When I try to enable persistence 1.225
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 2.221
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.086
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that the filesystem was repaired successfully 0.308
And the filesystem of the Persistent Storage was repaired 0.081
When I close the filesystem repair dialog 1.079
Then persistence is successfully enabled 3.296
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.746
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
38.330
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.701
And the Persistent Storage filesystem is corrupted beyond what e2fsck can repair 0.050
When I try to enable persistence 1.144
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that filesystem errors were found on the Persistent Storage 10.160
When I repair the filesystem of the Persistent Storage 1.093
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that it failed to repair the Persistent Storage 0.028
When I log in to a new session 7.637
And all notifications have disappeared 7.164
# Now both WhisperBack and Tor Browser has started at the same
# time, so we do not know which window is focused. The steps about
# Tor Browser care about that, but the ones about WhisperBack do
# not, so we first deal with WhisperBack and then kill it to
# ensure that Tor Browser is focused.
Then WhisperBack is prefilled for fsck with summary: "Failed to repair the file system of your Persistent Storage" 0.203
And the file "/var/lib/gdm3/post-greeter-whisperback.json" is empty 0.072
When I close the "whisperback" window 1.177
Then the Tor Browser starts 0.972
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.922
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.825
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000
Tags: @product @doc
36.717
Before features/support/hooks.rb:274 0.000
Before features/support/hooks.rb:281 0.002
Given I have started Tails without network from a USB drive with a persistent partition and stopped at Tails Greeter's login screen 7.626
And I corrupt the Persistent Storage filesystem on USB drive "__internal" in a way which can't be automatically repaired 9.497
And Tails detects disk read failures on the boot device 0.249
When I try to enable persistence 1.137
Then the Welcome Screen tells me that my hardware is probably failing 2.224
When I log in to a new session 6.493
And all notifications have disappeared 7.670
Then the Tor Browser starts 1.025
And "Tails - Recovering data from the Persistent Storage when it has file system errors" has loaded in the Tor Browser 0.791
After features/support/hooks.rb:339 0.951
After features/support/hooks.rb:108 0.000